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Document Type: | Book |
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All Authors / Contributors: |
Frederick Grinnell |
ISBN: | 9780195064575 0195064577 |
OCLC Number: | 804787737 |
Notes: | Índex. |
Awards: | Winner of Shortlisted for the Royal Society Prize for Science Books 2010. |
Description: | xii, 230 p. : il. ; 22 cm |
Contents: | Preface ; Part I- SCIENCE ; 1. Practicing science: An overview ; 2. Discovery: Learning new things about the world ; 3. Credibility: Validating discovery claims ; Part II-SCIENCE and SOCIETY ; 4. Integrity: From science policy to responsible conduct of research ; 5. Informed consent and risk: Intersection of human research and genetics ; 6. Faith: More than one way to practice the world ; Afterword ; References |
Other Titles: | Where intuition and passion meet objectivity and logic |
Responsibility: | Frederick Grinnell. |
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[Grinnell] does a lot of serious thinking aloud about big themes in science: discovery and credibility and integrity and (perhaps all the more pointedly because he is an academic biologist who works in Dallas, Texas, among the biblical fundamentalists) the nature of faith. Out of the perfectly self-effacing prose, very good things emerge, including a sense of the writer as a warm, fair-minded and thoughtful human being with a finely tuned sense of propriety. Hechooses beautiful and apposite quotations from Francis Collins, Albert Einstein and the painter Joan Miro in half a page, and punctiliously includes the references. * Tim Radford, guardian.co.uk * [...] an absolute gem. As a welcome antidote to the wiz-bang, techno-babble world of TV forensic dramas, Frederick Grinnell offers a real-life look at the scientific process. * Laboratory News * Read more...

